Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- The first group among 52 Cuban political prisoners to be freed is expected to arrive in Spain Tuesday, officials and family members said.
A group of prisoners left the island nation on a commercial flight Monday night, according to the head of Cuba's independent Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation.
Prisoner Jose Luis Garcia Paneque was among them, his cousin, Raul Smith Paneque, told CNN from his home in Las Tunas, Cuba.
